Bibliotheca americana.
Subtitle: A catalogue of books relating to North and South America in the library of the late John Carter Brown of Providence, R. I.
By: With notes by John Russell Bartlett.
Contributors: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886, comp.; Brown, John Nicholas, 1861-1900.; John Carter Brown Library
Publisher: [Printed by H.O. Houghton and company, Cambridge]
Published: 1875
Place of publication: Providence
Language: eng
Subjects: Rare books -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Bibliography -- Catalogs; America -- Bibliography -- Catalogs
Genres: Bibliography; Catalogs.
Notes: The 1st edition of the Catalogue was published, 1865-71 (3 parts in 4 vols.)  The present is the 2d edition of pt. I-II (first published 1865-66) enlarged and illustrated with reproductions of title-pages, maps, portraits, printers' devices, etc.
"One hundred copies printed for private circulation."  Pt. I. no. 40: pt. II. no. 8.
Contains some titles of desiderata (i.e. books catalogued with a view to intended purchase, but never obtained)
Also issued with same dates under title: Bibliographical notices of rare and curious books relating to America ... in the library of the late John Carter Brown ...
Under the provisions of the will of John Nicholas Brown, the collection was transferred in 1901 to Brown university.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. 1482-1601.  1875.; title: pt. II. 1600 to 1700.  1882.